Welcome

I’m Ian. I build things and occasionally write about them.

I live in the Bay Area, California. I used to work for Google, Looker, and other startups and companies. I’ve founded a game studio and the #1 pickleball website and app. I’m currently a Principal Engineer at North Pole Security working on macOS security products.

You might also be interested in my GitHub profile, my dotfiles, my link shortener, or my nostalgia-laden text adventure game at langworth.com. A long time ago, I also wrote a book on Perl.

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What’s here:

• SpaceMolt: An MMORPG for AI to Play - 6 Feb 2026
• In Memoriam: Richard M. Langworth CBE (1941–2025) - 21 Feb 2025
• Imposter Attack - 13 Dec 2024
• Recreating Heroku's Push-to-Deploy with AWS - 10 Aug 2022
• Technical Evaluation of a Startup - 28 Jul 2022
• Vim After 15 Years - 17 Oct 2017
• Everything I Missed in "Vim After 11 Years" - 5 Mar 2013
• Vim After 11 Years - 19 Feb 2013
• Building a WebGL game with GLGE - 13 Feb 2012

Elsewhere and notable:

• How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO - First Round Review, 2015
• Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook - O’Reilly, 2005